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Lets count our blessings as we push COVID worries aside Polly Powers Stramm In a world filled with bad news — where we seem to be waiting for the next shoe to drop — we all need to step back, take a collective deep breath and count our blessings. Sure, that’s difficult to say when friends or family have cancer, die in accidents, suffer strokes or struggle with dementia. Every bit of bad news can be overwhelming. But what if, for a moment, we push COVID worries aside, postp...

Echo Pilot May 5 The Greencastle-Antrim School Board officially put furloughs, teacher and program cuts and the elimination of extracurricular activities on the table during a virtual meeting. "Pre-COVID-19, it wasnt good; post-COVID-19, its disastrous," Caroline Royer, chief financial officer, said in describing the districts fiscal position. Projected revenues for 2020-21 are $39,999,478 and projected expenses are $42,448,579 for a deficit of $2,449,101. Greencastle-Antrim High School stude...

Feb. 4 A ruling has come down on the owners of a local dairy that closed abruptly in October and is accused of milking investors out of nearly $60 million. The Banking and Securities Commission has rendered Trickling Springs Creamery LLC — Philip Elvin Riehl, Gerald A. Byers, Elvin M. Martin and Dale L. Martin — permanently banned from the securities business and ordered to pay an administrative assessment in the amount of $4,375,000. Feb. 6 At Mondays Greencastle Borough Council meeting, P...